Posted on 11/27/2008 4:36:04 PM PST by WilliamReading
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (Nov. 27) — Edna Parker, who became the world’s oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115.
UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said Parker’s great-nephew notified him that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years, 220 days old, said Robert Young, a senior consultant for gerontology for Guinness World Records.
Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central Indiana’s Morgan County and had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, who was four months her senior. Coles maintains a list of the world’s oldest people and said Parker was the 14th oldest validated supercentenarian in history. Maria de Jesus of Portugal, who was born Sept. 10, 1893, is now the world’s oldest living person, according to the Gerontology Research Group. Parker had been a widow since her husband, Earl Parker, died in 1939 of a heart attack. She lived alone in their farmhouse until age 100, when she moved into a son’s home and later to the Shelbyville nursing home.
Although she never drank alcohol or tried tobacco and led an active life, Parker didn’t offer tips for living a long life. Her only advice to those who gathered to celebrate when she became the oldest person was “more education.”
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The world is left (again) without the world’s oldest person!
There is something very strange going on. The people holding the “world’s Oldest Person Title” keep dying. No sooner does someone replace them then they kick in too. There’s got to be more to this. I smell a conspiracy.
Adam lived 930 years. (Genesis 5:5)
Seth lived 912 years.(Genesis 5:8)
Methuselah lived 969 years.(Genesis 5:27)
And Noah lived 950 years. (Genesis 9:29)
And it seems that the Klintoons will live forever!
They were all married; so it just seemed that long.
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The title will now pass to its deserving owner: Judy Woodruff.
This poor lady died at least three times today.
as an aside....i’ve been wondering when chelsea would jump into politics...i bet it will be very soon...
Helen Thomas will take up the slack.
Wasn’t Billy Boy prepping us for the historical moment just a couple of weeks ago? The gravy train and the stupid voters are waiting!
It’ll be the payback her dad Webb has been waiting for!
What does Chelsea Clinton have to offer?
Are we going to see a next generation of Clintons, just as we saw the next generation of the Kennedy family?
And then Chelsea will get married, her husband will run for something, and their kids will then run for something too????
How come there wasn’t a next generation of Jimmy Carters?
Why are only certain families producing a next political generation?????
Miss Marple, you may want to look into this.
I want to die like my Grandpa, asleep at the wheel; not like his passengers who died screaming and begging for their lives as Grandpa drove them off a cliff.
(Sad, sick humor. But it’s STILL funny, LOL!)
If I were her, I would be v-e-r-y careful, let me just put it that way.
Wow! just imagine all of the the history that she witnessed first-hand.
The reason that there isn’t a new Carter generation is that they couldn’t find anyone to do Amy.
“If I were her, I would be v-e-r-y careful, let me just put it that way. “
Very true. Somebody keeps knocking these people off once they hit the top.
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